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Sr Java Developer

Date Posted: Apr 27, 2026

Job #1687421
Contract
O'Fallon, Missouri, USA
55 - 60 per hour (USD)

We have partnered with our client in their search for a Java Developer in O'Fallon, MO.

Responsibilities

  • - Ensure quality of one or more application codebases and alignment with development standards.
    - Provides input into design of automation for full infrastructure deployment; manages review of and tests for compatibility and integration processes needed to connect with other devices
    - Automates large scale systems spanning multiple locations and environments.
    - Writes code automating public cloud, private cloud, and bare metal.
    - Automates common tasks, deploy with an IaaS model, utilizing chef, ansible, or similar
    - Ability to write moderately complex scripts and programs for automation, tools, frameworks,
    dashboards, alarms. (common uses: Python, Perl, PHP, JavaScript, Go).
    - Orchestrates the deployment/maintenance of complex applications.
    - Responsible for performance engineering of the enterprise software architecture.
    - Significant code development, commitment of code/review of pull-requests, and modest day-to-day
    support duties.

Skills Required

  • Core Java backend engineering.
  • Java 17, expert level.
  • Spring Boot, strongly preferred.
  • RESTful API design, versioning, and error handling.
  • Event-driven architecture.
  • Kafka or similar streaming/messaging platforms such as ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, NATS, or equivalent.
  • Strong understanding of asynchronous processing, back pressure, retry patterns, ordering, and idempotency.
  • CI/CD experience.
  • Jenkins pipelines or similar.
  • GitHub for code management and PR processes.
  • Automated testing, artifact versioning, environment promotion, and code management.
  • JVM performance tuning, garbage collection tuning, thread pools, memory management.
  • Ability to diagnose latency, throughput, high CPU, resource utilization, and memory issues.
  • Monitoring/observability exposure, especially Splunk and Dynatrace.
  • IntelliJ IDE is commonly used.

Education & Work Experience

  • Bachelor's Degree
  • 7+ years of experience

Title Senior Core Java Developer

Location O'Fallon, MO

Client Industry Payments

Ref ID 1687421

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